Amanda Himes, one of the nurses at the Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon at Good Samaritan Hospital, e-mailed me today with an update on Dean and Kendra Schaumburg, the subject of two columns and an amazing fund-raising effort by readers of The Oregonian.

Dean moved out of the Forest Grove nursing home on Thursday, the day before his birthday, and moved with Kendra into a rental home in Vernonia that is next door to the lot where their new home will eventually be built.

And built primarily, I might add, by folks who stepped up and volunteered their services after reading of the Schaumburgs' plight.